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UA Day 2023 Events Schedule

Date Event Host Organization City Country Region Event Details
22/02/2023 UA Hackathon Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) Kingdom of Bahrain Manama Bahrain APAC Three Days Hackathon
28/02/2023 Hipsters Ponto Tech Podcast: Universal Acceptance ALURA São Paulo Brazil LAC One Hour Awareness Session
28/02/2023 Technical Programme - IDNs and EAI in Indian Languages - Outlook and Overview FICCI-ILIA Pune India APAC One Day UA Training Session
01/03/2023 Universal Acceptance (UA) Day Overview Caribbean Network Operators Group (CaribNOG) St. George Grenada LAC One Hour Awareness Session
10/03/2023 Taller Aceptación Universal (UA): Estratégias para el Estado de Aguascalientes, Mexico Congress of Aguascalientes, Mexico (LACRALO UA Initiative) Aguascalientes Mexico LAC Half Day Outreach Session
20/03/2023 Pour un Internet Multilingue INPT/ANRT/FMAI Rabat Morocco AF One Day Outreach Session
21/03/2023 Mélange - Miscellaneous mixtures of multilingual internet BASIS Technologies Private Limited Kolkata India APAC One Day UA Training Session

Location: CII Auditorium, Management House, Institution of Engineering and Management, Sector-V, Salt Lake Kolkata 700091, West Bengal, India.
23/03/2023 One-Day UA Day Training Event Samoa Information Technology Association Apia Samoa APAC One Day Outreach Session
24/03/2023 Benin Universal Acceptance Workshop Benin Chapter of Internet Society and IDEMI Africa Cotonou Benin AF Two Days UA Training Session

Time: 8:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. on 24 March and 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. on 25 March
Location: Salle de Conférence de SBIN, Avenue Clozel Ganhi, Cotonou, République du Bénin.

Join remotely here
Code: UADAY2023
26/03/2023 Understanding the Universal Acceptance Thi Pho Myanmar Yangon Myanmar APAC Half Day Outreach Session

Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Register here.
Join remotely here.
27/03/2023 Universal Acceptance Day 2023 Observation Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF) Dhaka Bangladesh APAC Two Day UA Training Session

Time: 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. on 27 March
and 10:00 - 1:30 pm on 18 March.
Location: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), IEB Bhaban, Ramna, Dhaka-1000
Bangladesh.
Join remotely here.
Passcode: 301970
27/03/2023 Demystifying Universal Acceptance in Uganda. International Business, Science and Technology University and Internet Society Uganda Chapter Kampala Uganda AF Two Day UA Training Session

Time: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. on 27 March and 8:00 a.m. - 3 p.m. on 28 March
Location: ISBAT University auditorium

Register here.
27/03/2023 The Economic benefits of Universal Acceptance to Liberia's Businesses and Institutions Internet Society Liberia Chapter Monrovia Liberia AF Half day Outreach Session
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Starz University of Science and Technology, Airfield, Sinkor, Monrovia, Liberia
Join Remotely here.
27/03/2023 Global UA Day Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) New Delhi India APAC Two Day UA Event
Register and join remotely here.
27/03/2023 Unlocking the Potential of Digital India by Universal Acceptance Autobot Infosec Private Limited Ranchi India APAC Two Day UA Training Session
Time: 27 - 28 March
Register here.
28/03/2023 UA Day ISOC AM NGO (Armenia ccTLD Operator) Yerevan Armenia APAC One Day UA Training Session

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Location: Holiday Inn Yerevan

More information here.
28/03/2023 UA Day: Create Business Digital Identity unlock from social media platform and importance of UA Thai Network Information Center (Thailand ccTLD Operator) Bangkok Thailand APAC One Day UA Training Session

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Email Server Setup
Location: Hillcrest 5fl. The Quarter Hotel Ladprao Bangkok.
Register here.
Time 1:00 p.m. - 16:00 p.m. Create Business Digital Identity
Location: Digital Economy Promotion Agency (Headquarter) Bangkok.
Register here.
28/03/2023 UA Day Program Internet Society of China Hybrid meeting, on-site venues set in meeting rooms in hotels, Registries, Internet companies etc. China APAC One Day UA Training Session

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: No. 42, Xueyuan Road Haidian District, Beijing
Join remotely here.
28/03/2023 Universal Acceptance for Government Officials CEABAD – Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Banda Ancha para el Desarrollo Managua Nicaragua LAC One Hour Awareness Session
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Join remotely here.
28/03/2023 Universal Acceptance Day Pakistan ISOC Islamabad Chapter,
Ministry of IT & Telecom,
Pakistan Software Export Board.		 Islamabad Pakistan APAC Half Day Outreach Session

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Location: National Incubation Center (NIC), H-9/1, Islamabad

Join remotely here.
28/03/2023 Open dialogue on Universal Acceptance Dutch Internet Standards Platform Online The Netherlands EU Two Hours Awareness Session

Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. CEST.
Join remotely here.
28/03/2023 Middle East Strategy on Universal Acceptance Tunisian Internet Society chapter Remote Tunisia AF Two Hour Strategy Session
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. UTC.
Register here.
28/03/2023 Universal Acceptance Outreach to Higher Education Technical Staff Association of African Universities Accra Ghana AF Half Day Outreach Session

Time: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location: African Universities house, Trinity Avenue, East Legon Accra Ghana.

Join remotely here.
28/03/2023 Universal Acceptance Day 2023 Internet Governance Kenya Internet Society Kenya Chapter Nairobi Kenya AF One Day Outreach Session

Time: From 8.30 a.m.
Location: Nairobi - ISOC Kenya Office.
Register here.
28/03/2023 Universal Acceptance Day Theekshana Colombo Sri Lanka APAC Two Hour Outreach Session

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Lotus Tower Bay Area Colombo
Event streaming
28/03/2023 Celebration de la journée mondiale de l'acceptation Universelle au Tchad :Workshop sur l'importance de l'acceptation universelle de nom de domaine et des adresses e-mails House Of Africa N'Djamena Chad AF Half Day Outreach Session

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des TIC (ENASTIC)
Register here.
Join remotely here.
28/03/2023 Internet future for local Impact with UA's day ALS LE BIK'LAB Pointe à Pitre Guadeloupe - French Caribbean LAC One Day UA Training Session
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Join remotely here.
28/03/2023 Celebrating Universal Acceptance Day: Promoting Universal Acceptance and Internationalized Domain Name Computer Association Nepal (CAN), Youth IGF Nepal Kathmandu Nepal APAC Half Day Outreach Session
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Location: Carnival Restro & Meetings
Register here.
Join remotely here.
Passcode: uanepal
28/03/2023 UA - Everybody Everywhere Libyan Internet Society Tripoli Libya AF Two Day UA Training Session
30/03/2023 Universal Acceptance Day LAC Region LACNOG Bolivia LAC LAC Two Days UA Training Session
Registration here.
31/03/2023 Seminar on IDN Usage of Brand Enterprises in China Internet DotTrademark Organisation Limited Beijing China APAC Half Day Outreach Session

Time: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: 4th Floor, Westin Hotel, No. 6 Linhe Middle Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, China.
Join remotely here.
Meeting ID: 166-201-420
Passcode: 230628
31/03/2023 NARALO and ISOC-NY Universal Acceptance Awareness Event NARALO and ISOC-NY Universal Acceptance Awareness Event New York, NY USA NA Half Day Outreach Session
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET
Location: The Chrysler Building, 12th Floor, 405 Lexington Ave. NY, NY 10174
Join remotely here.
03/04/2023 Universal Acceptance Workshop for Software Engineers The University of Dodoma Dodoma Tanzania AF Two Day UA Training Session

Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. on 3 April and 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on 4 April
Location: New Computer Lab, College of Informatics and Virtual Education, The University of Dodoma
Join remotely here.
04/04/2023 Universal Acceptance Talk Africa Center for Advocacy Yaounde Cameroon AF Two Hour Outreach Session
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Online.
Join remotely via Zoom ID 736 596 6350
Code: QGuSA4
06/04/2023 Nigeria's UA Day Celebration Awareness Program Nigerian Communications Commission, AFRALO and Green ICTi ALSe Virtual Nigeria AF Two Hour Outreach Session
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Join remotely here.
08/04/2023 Universal Acceptance Effectiveness İBB Veri Laboratuvarı (Data Lab) & SistersLab İstanbul Türkiye APAC Half Day Outreach Session
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: IBB Veri Laboratuvarı
Join remotely here.
13/04/2023 Civic Engagement on Universal Acceptance International Youth Summit Sierra Leone Freetown Sierra Leone AF One Day UA Training Session
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: 25 Bathurst Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Join remotely here.
14/04/2023 iMasters Podcast: Universal Acceptance iMasters São Paulo Brazil LAC One Hour Awareness Session
Join remotely here.
14/04/2023 UA Day Training for System Administrators and Java Programmers University of Ilorin Ilorin Nigeria AF Half Day Outreach Session
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Location: Conference Room Center for Research and In-House Training (CREDIT), University of Ilorin.
Join remotely here.
Meeting ID: 821 8969 9037
Passcode: 432359
18/04/2023 UA Day Awareness 2023 - Hosted by the TATT & LACRALO Telecommunication Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago LAC Half Day Outreach Session
21/04/2023 UA Training geoTLD.group, ECO Association of the Internet Industry, Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH Köln/ Cologne, Germany EU One Day UA Training Session
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (CEST)
Location: Lichtstraße 43h, 50825 Köln, Germany
Register here.
21/04/2023 Universal Acceptance Day INTERNET SOCIETY RWANDA CHAPTER Kigali Rwanda AF One Day UA Training Session
Location Avenue de Kiyovu & Res des Parcs Plot 5457 Kiyovu, Kigali, Rwanda
Register here.
24/04/2023 Acceptation universelle: Opportunités pour les francophones du Quebec, du Canada et des pays francophones PointQuébec Montreal and Quebec City Canada NA Half Day Outreach Session
27/05/2023 Internet everywhere Equipement and Technical Services Niamey Niger AF Half Day Awareness Session
Time: 09:00 a.m. (West Central Africa Time)
Join remotely here.
Meeting ID: 478 638 9637
Passcode: K28hrn
29/05/2023 Celebration of the Universal Acceptance (UA) Day 2023 in Laos Lao National Internet Center, Ministry of Technology and Communications, Laos Vientiane Laos APAC One Day UA Training Session
Register here.
Time: 8:30 - 16:00 Lao Time (GMT+7)
Join remotely here.
Meeting ID: 864 4089 1548
Passcode: 969060
05/05/2023 Women in ICT 2023 ICT Association of Malawi Lilongwe Malawi AF Half Day Awareness Session
Location: Sunbird Capital, Bingu International Convention Center Chilembwe Road, City Center, Lilongwe
Join here.
10/05/2023 .MY UA DAY 2023 Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) Cyberjaya Malaysia APAC Half Day Outreach Session
16/05/2023 Internet Day El Salvador (Aceptación Universal: hacia una Internet multíngue) ISOC El Salvador Chapter, SVNET (ALS), LACRALO San Salvador El Salvador, LAC LAC Two Day UA Training Session
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Location: Crown Plaza, San Salvador
25/05/2023 Internet Governance and Principle of universal acceptance.
Aceptación Universal UA, Gobernanza del Internet.		 Collaborating Organization(s): UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR, Corporación Ecuatoriana para el Desarrollo de la Investigación y la Academia Quito Ecuador LAC One Day UA Training Session
Location: Av. Universitaria, Quito 170129
17/05/2023 Dia Del Internet - Aceptacion Universal FUNDETIC-BOLIVIA Ciudad La Paz Bolivia LAC Half Day Outreach Session
15/05/2023 Universal Acceptance, a Priority for Governments and Businesses Data for Governance (D4G) Lab; Information Technology Organization of IRAN Tehran Islamic Republic of Iran APAC Time: 15:00-18:30 (IRST) / 11:30-15:00 (UTC)
Location: Data for Governance Lab, Sharif Policy Research Institute, Teimoori Square, Habibollahi Street, Tehran, Iran
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30/05/2023 Universal Acceptance: The new Internet Standard in this Digital Economy Internet Society Hong Kong Limited Hong Kong Hong Kong APAC One Day UA Training Session
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27/05/2023 Ghana Universal Acceptance Day - 2023 E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA) Accra Ghana AF One Day Outreach Session
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. GMT
Location: Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence, Accra
Register here.
Join remotely here.
24/05/2023 One-Day UA Day Training Event Vodafone PNG Port Moresby Papua New Guinea APAC Half Day Outreach Session
Domain Name System
Internationalized Domain Name ,IDN,"IDNs are domain names that include characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic Latin alphabet ""a-z"". An IDN can contain Latin letters with diacritical marks, as required by many European languages, or may consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. Many languages also use other types of digits than the European ""0-9"". The basic Latin alphabet together with the European-Arabic digits are, for the purpose of domain names, termed ""ASCII characters"" (ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange). These are also included in the broader range of ""Unicode characters"" that provides the basis for IDNs. The ""hostname rule"" requires that all domain names of the type under consideration here are stored in the DNS using only the ASCII characters listed above, with the one further addition of the hyphen ""-"". The Unicode form of an IDN therefore requires special encoding before it is entered into the DNS. The following terminology is used when distinguishing between these forms: A domain name consists of a series of ""labels"" (separated by ""dots""). The ASCII form of an IDN label is termed an ""A-label"". All operations defined in the DNS protocol use A-labels exclusively. The Unicode form, which a user expects to be displayed, is termed a ""U-label"". The difference may be illustrated with the Hindi word for ""test"" — परीका — appearing here as a U-label would (in the Devanagari script). A special form of ""ASCII compatible encoding"" (abbreviated ACE) is applied to this to produce the corresponding A-label: xn--11b5bs1di. A domain name that only includes ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens is termed an ""LDH label"". Although the definitions of A-labels and LDH-labels overlap, a name consisting exclusively of LDH labels, such as""icann.org"" is not an IDN."